Lionel Messi | Joins Inter Miami (pg4111)

[RayCTID]

While bart is there, messi may want to leave but is unlikely to get to. With a new president, he is probably unlikely to get to, but may not want to either. So, still more likely with bartomeu there than not, imo.

Immaterial now anyway, as it seems he has accepted he is staying.

Barti the Clown will not sell as he is the one who can veto the deal. The only power Messi has is on team matters not off field.

 

[decmancity]

Nope. But nothing will happen with Bartomeu still in charge

I think you missed the joke :(

 

[RayCTID]

I think you missed the joke :(

Maybe

 

[FCBarca]

How does the 700 million matter? That is only a number if Barcelona don't want to sell him/negotiate.

It's a buyout clause, precisely to do what it was intended for - a release, if you pay it

Barcelona can sell him for any amount they want. Infact not having a release clause would mean that Barcelona can't buy Garcia without City's approval.

Correct, Barca could sell for less if they want to - else player can walk for free when contract permits it. Garcia has no buy out clause, a fee has to be agreed upon between both parties when you know your player wants to leave. How that constitutes irony beggars belief

 

[FCBarca]

Debatable

Well, debatable in so far as whether it was applicable at the time (I believe it was not, tbf) but the 700M is in the contract. I am not going out on a limb when I assert that Garcia has no such fee for a buyout

 

[FCBarca]

No chance. Barcelona's president still holds the power

Picture worth a thousand words

 

[TheThirdDeano]

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God bless him he's got a belly going!
Same thing happened to me after lock down

 

[manimanc]

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Good job he has long shorts on, you'd be able to see his balls otherwise.

 

[Neville Kneville]

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Strange guy, having a sock tattooed on.

Defeats the object of having a sock.

 

[kupest]

It's a buyout clause, precisely to do what it was intended for - a release, if you pay it




Correct, Barca could sell for less if they want to - else player can walk for free when contract permits it. Garcia has no buy out clause, a fee has to be agreed upon between both parties when you know your player wants to leave. How that constitutes irony beggars belief



Your pal lacks an understanding of the term irony while you have mixed the topics of irony and the utility of clauses. What can I say, education has failed you or you failed in your education

Don't want to get into a debate with you on my education. Thanks for that demeaning comment though.

 

[RayCTID]

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This is probably the season where he starts his decline

 

[FCBarca]

This is probably the season where he starts his decline

No chance

 

[RayCTID]

No chance

Don't rule it out. It happens to the best of them and Messi is no exception. It is down to which club will witness that decline.

 

[worsleyweb]

I was told this week that all city staff have been given a pay freeze this year and notified in recent weeks and the general mood within the club was glad he was not coming. The figures involved were distasteful even by football standards and a lot did not want the circus of us becoming messi fc rather than Manchester City. I for one am relieved he is not coming. Just want a few new faces and save the money for sergios replacement.

 

[manimanc]

Don't rule it out. It happens to the best of them and Messi is no exception. It is down to which club will witness that decline.

The only way Messi's game will drop is if he's pissed off, doesn't want to stay at Barca, has lost his confidence in the club, the owners and the team, hands in a transfer request and then stays but doesn't really settle.

I think he'll be fine.

 

[SWP's back]

Perhaps you need to revisit the meaning of the word irony then. One has a contract with a transfer clause (700M), the other doesn't have any clause

Neither have clauses as we speak.

 

[BufordUSABlue]

No chance

On the 4 decent games for Barcelona, a season, that he will have to actually put a shift in!!

 

[Carlos- the- jackal]

I was told this week that all city staff have been given a pay freeze this year and notified in recent weeks and the general mood within the club was glad he was not coming. The figures involved were distasteful even by football standards and a lot did not want the circus of us becoming messi fc rather than Manchester City. I for one am relieved he is not coming. Just want a few new faces and save the money for sergios replacement.

At least they’ve still got jobs, plenty haven’t.

 

[FCBarca]

Don't rule it out. It happens to the best of them and Messi is no exception. It is down to which club will witness that decline.

Eventually, everyone slows down and he is no exception but his ability to consistently influence a match remains a cut above anyone in football and I have seen no sign of that decreasing. If anything, a better team would bring him more success in terms of trophies and the collective play

I say this about Suarez, who is clearly on the decline, Leo has no one on the pitch at Barca currently to have link up that is intuitive - no one. It's the first time I have seen that in his career at Barca.

At City, that would not be the case

 

[RayCTID]

The only way Messi's game will drop is if he's pissed off, doesn't want to stay at Barca, has lost his confidence in the club, the owners and the team, hands in a transfer request and then stays but doesn't really settle.

I think he'll be fine.

Nothing to do with his motivation although it is going to be a chalenge for Messi this season. He will phyiscally decline at some point and at 33 years old and the position he plays in it will be sooner rather than later.